Description

FS 220, Shope Creek Road. Logging road with a gravel/natural surface climbs beside the main stem of Shope Creek through pine and hardwood forests. Reaches a logged area on the left, where the trail hooks into a clearing and ends. This area is filled with blackberry bushes in season. Nice after-work or exercise hike, and forms the basis for some other hikes in the Shope Creek area.

This is probably the only officially named trail in the area, and others mentioned (in quotes) are unofficial names.

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